Mestrado em Letras
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Nível: Mestrado Acadêmico
Ano de início: 1999
Conceito atual na CAPES: 5
Ato normativo: Homologado pelo CNE (Portaria MEC Nº 609, de 14/03/2019).
Publicação no DOU 18 de março de 2019, seç. 1, p.136 - Parecer CNE/CES nº 487/2018, Processo no 23001.000335/2018-51)
Periodicidade de seleção: Semestral
Área(s) de concentração: ESTUDOS LITERÁRIOS
Url do curso: https://letras.ufes.br/pt-br/pos-graduacao/PPGL/detalhes-do-curso?id=1510
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- ItemA alteridade em Clarice Lispector(Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, 2014-06-09) Guedes, Helena Cirelli; Almeida, Júlia Maria Costa de; Ramalho, Christina Bielinsky; Soares, Luís EustáquioRealizing the theme of the otherness in the fiction writed by Clarice Lispector, this study analyses it in the novel The passion according to G. H. and in the short story “A mensagem” with the support of the existentialist philosophy based on Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Frantz Fanon and Søren Kierkegaard and also in the theorists whose works which would probably be nowadays the development of these reflections about the other, among which was chosen Pierre Bourdieu, Kwame Anthony Appiah and Jacques Derrida.
- ItemA ancestralidade e o mulherismo africana em Diário de Bitita, de Carolina Maria de Jesus(Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, 2022-11-21) Fleischmann, Fransueiny Pereira; Schiffler, Michele Freire; https://orcid.org/000000019198468X; http://lattes.cnpq.br/9912476303376712; Nascimento, Jorge Luiz do; http://lattes.cnpq.br/5314773566668629; Vermes, Viviana Monica; http://lattes.cnpq.br/3806495173897941The present dissertation presents as its central theme the critical-literary analysis of the work Diário de Bitita (1982) by the writer Carolina Maria de Jesus from African traditions such as ancestry and African women. To this end, the fabric takes place around theorists who move away from the Eurocentric conception, and who, on the contrary, place African traditions at the heart of the epistemological issues of black Brazilian literature. In relation to ancestry, this will be referenced to African heritages seen in the work, such as ancestral memory, oral tradition and the author's bond with Mother Earth. The research will follow around the representation of women from the African women's perspective and from a decolonial gender perspective. As a theoretical contribution, researchers who have focused on the research theme will be used, such as Eduardo Oliveira (2021), Leda Maria Martins (2001), Fábio Leite (1997; 2008), Michele Freire Schiffler (2014), Nei Lopes and Luiz Antônio Simas (2020), Amadou Hampaté Bâ (2010), Clenora Hudson Weens (2018), Nah Dove (1998) and Françoise Vergès (2020).
- ItemA Autofabulação em a Casa Inventada de Lya Luft(Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, 2021-07-30) Soares, Julia Silveira; Oliveira, Ester Abreu Vieira de; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9959-1418; http://lattes.cnpq.br/3293718089972581; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0486-1070; http://lattes.cnpq.br/0712193784489593; Santos, Vitor Cei; https://orcid.org/0000000167563236; http://lattes.cnpq.br/3944677310190316; Santos, Valci Vieira dos; http://orcid.org/; http://lattes.cnpq.br/4917666936760334The thesis has the aim to present the analyze of A casa Inventada (2017) by Lya Luft, which work presents in composition fictional and real narrative resources, common in contemporary literary nonfiction. The inclusion of fiction will be propose because the chapters, named as rooms, represent the process of imagination of the lyric self in the construction of the metaphorical house. The unusual elements will be analyze, as they allude to fantastic and wonderful literature, especially when it comes to the character Pandora and her object of passage: the mirror. It will present the self-fiction and the post-modern variant, the self-fabulation, according to Vincent Colonna's theoretical aspects. The procedures of the fabulation are present in the characters Penelope and Pandora, as they allude to figures from Greek mythology and their archetypes. Therefore, the objective is to relate Colonna's theory as it is closer to Lya Luft's work.
- ItemA aventura do reino encantado : a representação do sertão no romance d'A Pedra do Reino de Ariano Suassuna(Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, 2016-05-31) Paula, Keynny Lina Dala Bernardina de; Beneduzi, Luís Fernando; Ribeiro, Adelia Maria Miglievich; Mulinacci, RobertoThe presente dissertation has by objective analise the representation of sertão in the novels Romance d’A Pedra do Reino e o príncipe do sangue do vai-e-volta (1971), by Ariano Suassuna, having as theoretical support the conceptual notions of representation, appropriation and cultural practices to the perspective of New Cultural History. It was considered the cultural practices of Ariano Suassuna and the appropriation of oral and written popular culture texts. The vision of rural and archaic Brazil is built inside the novel through the representation of sertão as a place of confirmation of national identity, where the real Brazilian culture keeps intact to the detriment of globalized culture of big urban centers – being in evidence through the intertextuality kept by the northeast popular novelist and the literature of chivalry.
- ItemA cidade flutuante : espaços, deslocamentos e identidades na literatura pós-moderna(Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, 2008-12-09) Pizzol, Rafaela Scardino Lima; Moraes, Alexandre Jairo Marinho; Jozef, Bella Karacuchansky; Nascimento, Jorge Luiz doThe city imposes to its inhabitants an endless movement, a displacement through spaces that do not show any signs of permanence — may it be identity, physical or urban. The urban text is made of constantly moving bodies that write it, many times, without ever getting to read it. In Paul Auster’s novels, and also in several contemporary novels, in a similar way, the characters only possibility of knowing the city comes from their walkings and the narration of what they experiment and testify. In their wanderings, they move through both subjective and empirical structures, as well as words, in an attempt to give shape to the city space and to the absence of any feeling of pertaining. This essay approaches how the urban structures and the contemporary wandering and subjectivity processes are literarily structured, taking as a guideline Paul Auster’s oeuvres, especially the narratives In the country of last things and City of glass, and, in a minor focus, other contemporary novels. In this conceptual panorama, we will discuss and analyze, therefore, the configurations of the contemporaneity in order to study postmodern subjective representations, their relation to the spacial organizations, the identity flotations and the wanderings in the urban space/time, as well as the ways those relations are composed in the postmodern literature.
- ItemA constituição da persona satírica na obra de Juvenal(Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, 2019-06-27) Cordeiro, Iana Lima; Leite, Leni Ribeiro; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6600-7692; http://lattes.cnpq.br/1222376244857241; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8162-2674; http://lattes.cnpq.br/3519019220994642; Cesila, Robson Tadeu; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1449-238X; http://lattes.cnpq.br/7812597574335813; Sodre, Paulo Roberto; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9333-2201; http://lattes.cnpq.br/2187592206957865Our dissertation analyzes the construction of the ethos of the poetic persona in Roman satirist Juvenal’s Satires. Because of the scarcity of empirical biographical information about this author’s life, along with the perception of a tone oscillation throughout his texts, there has been some dissent among the scholars who have studied his work. From the understanding of the historical context in which the poet lived and the observance of satire’s literary characteristics, visible not only in Juvenal’s poetry but also in that of his predecessors’, we discuss two great perspectives among his critics: the biographical reading and the adoption of a poetic persona as an analytical tool – and, intrinsically connected to both, the perceivable tone variance that exists in his work. The result to our own reading of the Satires, along with our weighing of the different arguments on the matter presented to us by several authors, is that there is, in Juvenal’s work, a constructed ethos so solid and cohesive that our statement on the matter is that there is only one poetic persona in his work and the tone variance should not be considered more relevant than the recurring themes in his Satires. Thus, our analysis of what aspects compose the satirical voice is based on the consistent statements he displays throughout his work about certain themes. Our results are organized in four categories: a) the satire’s poet; b) condemnation of wealth; c) about women and d) decaying of society. We conclude, therefore, that this satirist constructs his ethos as a Roman citizen whose only alternative, as an expression to his indignation towards his contemporaries’ vicious behavior, is writing satires, and who also perceives this moral corruption as both the cause and the consequence of an irreversible social decadency.
- ItemA construção da identidade nacional pela representação do indígena no mestiço antropofágico de macunaíma(Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, 2018-05-02) Raft, Gustavo Luz; Oliveira, Jurema José de; Soares, Luiz Eustáquio; Oliveira Neto, Godofredo de; Amaral, Sérgio da Fonseca; Cunha, Betina Ribeiro Rodrigues daThis paper aims to do a critical reading of the national’s identity construction represented on the book Macunaíma: the hero without a character focused on the indigenous element as a matrix of the cultural miscegenation process. In an attempt to rediscover Brazil and it’s origins, the book of the modernist writer Mário de Andrade mimics and satirizes elements that he deems central in Brazil. He makes a indigenous representation as a brazilian mestizo component and promote the foreign culture deglutition as national identity resistance. For this analysis, the concepet of identity is updated through historical and dialectical materialism, which allows us to surmise from the book - that even in rupture with eurocentrism and plaster aesthetic, mainly present in the used language - that remains a bourgeois traits and metaphysical that deals with the indigenous as the other, revealing a representation and image of the primitiv, paradigma, predominant on literary production of Brazil.
- ItemA contística de Raduan Nassar sob a perspectiva da violência e do erotismo(Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, 2025-07-24) Pimenta, Pedro Henrique Aleixo; Arendt, João Claudio; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2587-2521; http://lattes.cnpq.br/4108580744111952 ; https://orcid.org/0009-0006-8796-8170; http://lattes.cnpq.br/3467052661292456 ; Caser, Maria Mirtis; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9247-8199; http://lattes.cnpq.br/1341358191671907; Pereira, Helena Bonito Couto; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1642-5447; http://lattes.cnpq.br/9240687015870539This dissertation aims to investigate how violence and eroticism are represented in the short stories of Raduan Nassar. By addressing multiple forms of violence and their victimized subjects, Raduan Nassar employs a literary discourse that is both violent and filled with erotic meanings, evoking discomfort and denouncing the way so-called “minorities” are treated in society. Initially, it was noted that there is a considerable tendency among critics to approach eroticism in Nassar’s work as dissociated from a constant element: violence. Furthermore, there is a gap in academic production, which is mostly based on the author’s best-known texts, such as Ancient Tillage (Lavoura Arcaica) and A Cup of Rage (Um Copo de Cólera). These observations justify this dissertation, which, by focusing on lesser-known short stories, fosters discussions about power relations in a Brazilian society still marked by patriarchy and male domination. The results obtained show a willingness in recent studies to acknowledge, even if briefly, the pervasive violence in these stories, reinforcing the importance of this theme in Nassar’s work. Furthermore, regarding violence and eroticism, the research confirmed the interconnection between these two themes within human relationships, which are often represented in literature. Throughout the analysis of the short stories, a predominance of male narrators and characters was identified, who exert their violence to maintain male domination, primarily targeting women and other minorities: immigrants, Black people, lower social classes, children, and prostitutes. Additionally, a harmful eroticism was identified, structured as a device to enact violence, along with possible obscenities, which nonetheless encounter resistance opposing the forces of oppression and ferocity.
- ItemA criação de personagem em Niketche: uma história de poligamia(Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, 2017-07-18) Farias Júnior, Selso Vieira; Oliveira, Jurema José de; Schiffler, Michele Freire; Freitas, Sávio Roberto Fonsêca deWe aim to analyze the female characters creation and the possible influences present in this process on the book Niketche: umahistória de poligamia (2002). As a theoretical framework on narratology and character creation process, we focus especially on A Personagem de ficção by Antonio Candido (1988), Pessoas de Livros. Sobre a personagem by Carlos Reis (2003) and Reading People, Reading Plots. Character, Progression, and the Interpretation of Narrative by James Phelan (1989), as well as in the notes by Kwame Anthony Appiah on A casa de meu pai: a África n afilosofia da cultura (2010) and Fábio Leite on A questão Ancestral (1987) on cultural relations of the various peoples from African continent.
- ItemA donzela Laida e o enigma da feiura em a demanda do Santo Graal(Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, 2017-07-17) Schimid, Vanessa Annecchini; Valle Ojeda, María del; Sodré, Paulo Roberto; Leite, Leni Ribeiro; Arsillo, VincenzoThis work analyses the feminine ugliness in the Medieval context (13th century) by means of a study of the character laida in A demanda do Santo Graal, when considering the ambiguity of her figure and having in mind the importance of her benevolent function – to prevent the tragic destiny of Galvam – versus the adjective “ugly”, which she is given in order to not particularize her. Therefore, tries to understand such antagonistic aspects that configure the character’s ambiguity and its relation to the masculine perception of women in that period. It tries to prove the hypothesis that laida, in spite of the polarization that characterizes the feminine studies about A demanda do Santo Graal, in which woman is idealized under the light of courteous love or generally condemned by Christianity with the exception of Holly Mary, the aim of this dissertation is to prove the hypothesis that laida inscribes herself in a between place marked by Celtic and Christian cultures, inside a universe of evident misogynist and pedagogic tone.
- ItemA escrita espelhada: discursos que refletem sobre o ofício de escrever em obras de Clarice Lispector e Darío Jaramillo(Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, 2020-02-19) Montero, Ricardo Javier Barreto; Oliveira, Ester Abreu Vieira de; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9959-1418; http://lattes.cnpq.br/3293718089972581; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0938-8983; http://lattes.cnpq.br/0823217223971755; Baunilha, Eduardo Fernando; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4414-3292; http://lattes.cnpq.br/9927096625452301; Caser, Maria Mirtis; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9247-8199; http://lattes.cnpq.br/1341358191671907
- ItemA ficção histórica em Vigilia del Almirante, de Augusto Roa Bastos(Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, 2015-02-25) Pimenta, Larissa Itami O’Hara; Caser, Maria Mirtis; Arcuri, Silvia Inés Cárcamo de; Patrício, Cláudia Paulino de Lanis; Oliveira, Ester Abreu Vieira deAnalyzes the work Vigilia del Almirante, Augusto Roa Bastos's, published in 1992 in his most striking textual aspects, from the procedures used by the writer to the creation of the historiographical metafiction, which the author reveals himself to be the result of the fifth centennial celebration from the voyage of Christopher Columbus to America. Seeks, in filling the gaps left by the history of the discovery, understanding the making of a fictional Columbus. The particular truth of the studied fiction allows us to build and deconstruct the parody of the main character. The work of Roa Bastos invades the history and resumes Columbus figure of poetic and revisional mode. Concepts such as "historical novel", "mimesis", "likelihood," "defamiliarization" and others are addressed to the interpretation of the text. Also, the categories of romance are perceived in this study, as characters, time, space and plot, beyond the particularities of the genre in question.
- ItemA história não é minha, a história é nossa, a história é do povo: uma análise dos processos de escrita e publicação de narrativas Tupinikim e Guarani(Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, 2025-03-17) Vieira, Celiane da Silva; Marcelino, Ozirlei Teresa; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6694-8687 ; http://lattes.cnpq.br/9548763641862588; https://orcid.org/0009-0005-2781-8253; http://lattes.cnpq.br/2333015983782330; Salgueiro, Maria Amélia Dalvi ; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8729-2338; http://lattes.cnpq.br/9399371418356916; Chacón, Ricardo Piera; https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6940-8207; http://lattes.cnpq.br/9594598801857192This dissertation analyzes the works Os Tupinikim e os Guarani contam... (1999), written by Tupinikim and Guarani educators, and KWARAY A'EGWI DJATXY OIKO YPY RÃ GWARE: A origem dos irmãos Sol e Lua na cultura Guarani (2023), by Mauro Guarani and Antônio Guarani, published in Espírito Santo. The study investigates the processes of writing, publishing and analyzing the narratives of these communities, placing them in the context of indigenous literature in Brazil. A central theme of the analysis is the notion of collective authorship, based above all on the studies of Pesca and Kaiapó (2020). The research is anchored in a theoretical and bibliographical framework that includes the work of Tupinikim and Guarani educators, such as Carvalho (2013), Quiezza (2014) and the authors of the Prolind/Ufes Course Conclusion Papers (2015-2022), as well as the contributions of other indigenous authors, such as Julie Dorrico (2017, 2020), Daniel Munduruku (2018, 2022) and Márcia Kambeba (2018, 2020). The study also dialogues with investigations by non indigenous researchers, such as Ciccarone (2001), Marcilino (2014) and Costa (2018, 2023). In conclusion, we highlight the importance of understanding indigenous literature beyond the publishing market, by investigating works published in the context of Indigenous School Education, which are permeated by other ways of writing, publishing, reading and, therefore, analyzing
- ItemA importância da obra de Solano Trindade no panorama da literatura brasileira: uma reflexão sobre o processo de seleção e exclusão canônicas(Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, 2012-03-30) Santos, Suely Maria Bispo dos; Nacimento, Jorge Luiz do; Oliveira, Jurema José de; Souza, Marcelo Paiva deThis research investigates the silence and lack of acknowledgement surrounding the name and work of Solano Trindade, one of the pioneers and most important representatives of Afro-Brazilian literature. The discussions on the appearance of Black literature in Brazil, stemming from the need to give voice and visibility to the many writers ignored by dominating sectors, are relevant issues identified and analyzed throughout this study. The present project not only aims to better understand and perceive the life and work of Solano Trindade, but also reflects on the process of selection and exclusion of diverse social, ethnic and sexual groups defined by the literary canon.
- ItemA jornada da heroína na quadrilogia napolitana de Elena Ferrante(Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, 2025-08-04) Gonçalves, Francyne dos Santos; Caser, Maria Mirtis; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9247-8199; http://lattes.cnpq.br/1341358191671907; https://orcid.org/0009-0004-1244-5426; http://lattes.cnpq.br/3001214311000455; Nathanailidis, Andressa Zoi; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6264-2362; http://lattes.cnpq.br/3371274869641421; Ribeiro, Renata Rocha; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1714-3182; http://lattes.cnpq.br/9766358738375689This research critically analyzes the heroine’s journey in Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels, which comprises My Brilliant Friend (2015), The Story of a New Name (2016), Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (2016), and The Story of the Lost Child (2017). The study focuses on the character and narrator Elena Greco (Lenu), in dialogue with the concept of the heroine’s journey formulated by Maureen Murdock (2022 [1990]) in The Heroine’s Journey: Woman’s Quest for Wholeness. The research examines the mother–daughter relationship in Ferrante’s works, emphasizing its importance in female psychological development, as described by Murdock (2022 [1990]), as well as the stages of the narrator’s formation. In addition, the study investigates the representation of the maternal archetype through the lens of Carl Gustav Jung’s theories (2016, 2018), complemented by Murdock’s contributions (2022 [1990]). To further reflect on the role of women in society and on female representation in literature, the investigation draws on the works of authors such as Elisabeth Badinter (1985), Silvia Federici (2019), and Judith Butler (2017). The aim is to demonstrate how an understanding of the epic trajectory can contribute to the development of an innovative narrative concerning the multiple forms of women’s existence and expression in society.
- ItemA literatura do fora em Perto do coração selvagem, de Clarice Lispector(Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, 2011-08-29) Barbosa, Diana Carla de Souza; Oliveira, Jurema José de; Azevedo Filho, Deneval Siqueira de; Chiaretto, MarceloDans le dialogue avec Michel Foucault, je soutiens que le roman Près du coeur sauvage, écrites par Clarice Lispector, n'est pas une fiction de la subjectivité. Pour ce faire, travaillent également avec le concept de devenir et aussi avec le concept de non définie, en convergence avec la philosophie de Gilles Deleuze et Félix Guattari. Je crois que le "cœur sauvage" de la littérature du premier roman de Clarice Lispector est devenu étranger à la tyrannie de soi, l'intimité, Œdipe, le droit, la tradition, l'humanisme, la culture, à faire comme un événement en dehors de l'Invention d'eux-mêmes, hors du temps, hors de l'espace, hors de l'ordre.
- ItemA literatura nos livros didáticos do Ensino Fundamental II: um estudo de três coleções contemporâneas(Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, 2017-08-04) Silva, Daiani Pignaton Souza; Dalvi, Maria Amélia; Carvalho, Raimundo Nonato Barbosa de; Silva, Arlene Batista da; Carvalho, Letícia Queiroz deThis dissertation quantitatively investigates, from a study of content, the presence and the theoretical-methodological treatment of Literature in three contemporary collections of Portuguese Language destined to the 6th and 7th years of Elementary Education II, namely Portuguese: Languages, To Live Together and The Adventure of Language, evaluated and approved by PNLD 2014 and adopted by public schools. It maps the most common literary genres, the presence of integral texts or fragments, and the way the didactic works propose the pedagogical approach of literary texts. He is a member of the Research Group of Literature and Education, Federal University of Espírito Santo (Ufes), and the Postgraduate Program in Literature (PPGL) of Ufes. In the bibliographic review, we find that there is a certain lack of studies with this specific cut - and yet, we consider it of great relevance since the 6th and 7th years make the transition between the initial years of Elementary School I and the last years of the Elementary education II. Dialoging with Candido (1988), Leahy-Dios (2000) and Dalvi (2013a, 2013b), and also with the official PNLD Guide documents 2011 and 2014 and PCN, and taking as corpus six volumes of contemporary textbooks from three different collections , This research is characterized as bibliographic-documentary and seeks to discuss and investigate the place occupied by Literature in the textbooks of Elementary School II in the face of teaching materials that, in theory, should guarantee the Right to Literature and Literary Education in the context of education Public school system.
- ItemA lógica do absurdo : loucura, reificação e cinismo em Quincas Borba(Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, 2009-09-03) Baunilha, Eduardo Fernando; Soares, Luis Eustáquio; Miranda, Wander Melo; Oliveira, Ester Abreu Vieira deWe will talk about the mechanism of inheritance, as searching in Machado de Assis literature, amplifying It and transferring It to the interpreting hypothesis of that, such mechanism, in plot of the machadiana literature, constitutes an ironic way for the carioca author to fiction the metaphysical legacy, as well as the presence of self values, techniques and western institutions. Hereafter, it will be adopted as an exemplary reference of analysis, the leading character’s behavioral vicissitude, Rubião, from Quincas Borba novel, universal heir of a madness – the relations of power incorporated and reified – which, involving rich and poor, establish themselves as legacy of the human misery, of a world formed of possessors and slaves. And it is this amplified madness, not simply individual, not simply of the nineteenth century, that will be the theme of this master’s dissertation.
- ItemA morte e a morte em Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas(Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, 2009-11-24) Santos, Nanine Renata Passos dos; Salgueiro, Wilberth Claython Ferreira; Moraes, Alexandre Jairo Marinho; Albertino, Orlando LopesMachado de Assis is definitely one of the most well known Brazilian writers in the Literature scenario. He is considered by the critics one of the most important and complex names in our Literature. Machado is, above all, an icon to the modernity of our Portuguese language. Therefore, to discuss about his masterpiece is surely a big challenge, considering that there is a wealth criticism in which lays his texts. Having this in mind, we selected his first novel from the second productive period as the reference for analyzing one of the most intriguing themes from human kind history and one of the biggest mysterious: the death. The Machado’s novel according to the critics, opens his second production period. Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas shows the death as a place starting since the beginning, to produce a different discourse that had been elaborated by Machado so far. This way, we are able to recognize all the narrative components not only in this work, but also in each novel that Machado has written after 1881.
- ItemA morte na literatura infantil e juvenil brasileira contemporânea: uma análise de contos baseados na cultura popular(Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, 2024-05-24) Ribeiro, Rebecca de Araujo; http://lattes.cnpq.br/9399371418356916; Salgueiro, Maria Amélia Dalvi; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8729-2338; https://orcid.org/0009-0001-6616-1291; http://lattes.cnpq.br/9133166030161798; Trefzger, Fabíola Simão Padilha; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6361-7134; http://lattes.cnpq.br/7299183790903513; Ramalhete, Mariana Passos ; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6933-6552; http://lattes.cnpq.br/5970771373978559It analyzes the short stories “The man who saw death”, “The last day in the life of the blacksmith” and “The young man who did not want to die”, from the works Contos de Enganar a Morte, by Ricardo Azevedo (2003), and “Death and the fugitive”, “Death and the old woman” and “Death and the innkeeper”, from the collectanea Contos de Morte Morrida, by Ernani Ssó (2007). It investigates how death has been conceived in works of contemporary Brazilian children’s and youth literature based on tales from popular culture. The studies of Adichie (2021), Ariès (1989, 1990, 2012), Becker (1991 [1973]), Elias (2001), Franco (2021) Freud (2021 [1915], 2011 [1917]), Han (2020 , 2021) and Schopenhauer (2020) on the theme of death constituted a background to understand how death was being elaborated by human beings, in the transit between the popular and the erudite, until reaching the contemporary moment and its literary elaboration in scope of the works under study. To also make considerations about the literary creation by Ricardo Azevedo and Ernani Ssó, was used the studies of Alcoforado (2008), Cascudo (2012; 2013), Cortázar (2006), Gotlib (1998) and Traça (1998) on the tale; and by Lajolo and Zilberman (2007) and Colomer (2017) on children’s and youth literature. The works of Bergson (1983) and Eagleton (2020) has based the dimension of the analysis concerning humor, recurrent both in popular culture and in children’s and youth literature. It concludes that the stories studied do not deny death or the negative feelings it can produce but symbolize it as a humanized and comical character.